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Raimondo pushes pension cuts to Bay Area CEO’s

Raimondo pushes pension cuts to Bay Area CEO’s

By Bob Plain on May 13, 2013

The Providence Journal reports that Gina Raimondo was in San Francisco recently selling her pension cutting playbook to a group of San Francisco business leaders. The Bay Area Council, which bills itself on its website as a “a business-sponsored, public policy advocacy organization for the nine-county Bay Area. The Council proactively advocates for a strong [...]

Posted in Featured, Politics | Tagged bank of america, ceo, pension cuts, raimondo | 4 Responses

Foliage on the banks of the Queens River in Exeter. (Photo by Bob Plain)

Progress Report: Ugly Campaign Olympics; Brien Down to Last Strike, ProJo for Warren; NEA-RI to NK: We Bat Last

By Bob Plain on October 25, 2012

I’m starting to get the feeling that Brendan Doherty doesn’t even want to serve in Congress. If he did, he’d probably audition for the job a just little bit rather than just trying to convince voters to reject incumbent David Cicilline. This campaign has become ridiculously negative, and their debates remind me of when my [...]

Posted in RI Progress Report | Tagged bank of america, bill clinton, Brendan Doherty, David Cicilline, Elizabeth Warren, Gordon Fox, mark binder, projo, scott brown | 5 Responses

Bank of America Protest: First PVD, Then NC

Bank of America Protest: First PVD, Then NC

By Bob Plain on May 7, 2012

After a protest in front of the downtown Bank of America building this afternoon at 5pm, about 15 Rhode Islanders are heading off to Charlotte North Carolina to join thousands of others from across the United States to protest at the bank’s annual shareholder’s meeting. Today’s action in downtown Providence in front of the Superman [...]

Posted in Economy, National News | Tagged bank of america, banks, charlotte, corporate greed, DARE, environmental justice league, Income Inequality, Rhode Island | 13 Responses

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